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Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen Well-to-do family who are landowners and owners of a farm, department store and a mortgage bank; investments in Eretz Israel by his mother, with the help of emissaries. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor digging bunkers and in agriculture in exchange for food; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; murder of his mother and sisters; labor as a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Jafa (Marmur) Levi, born in Toplita, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Toplita Ghetto, Auschwitz and Malchow

Testimony

Testimony of Jafa (Marmur) Levi, born in Toplita, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Toplita Ghetto, Auschwitz and Malchow Life before the war; relations with the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; receives help from Romanian neighbors; deportation to the Toplita Ghetto; Toplita Ghetto life; robbery of Jewish property by Hungarians; deportation of men to forced labor; deportation of young Jews to camps in Ukraine; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including receiving help and support from her older sister; meets female cousins, her uncle's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yitzhak Genis Ganon, born in Arta, Greece, 1924, regarding his experiences in Arta, Auschwitz, Flossenbuerg, Gross-Rosen and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Yitzhak Genis Ganon, born in Arta, Greece, 1924, regarding his experiences in Arta, Auschwitz, Flossenbuerg, Gross-Rosen and a death march Life before the war; religious family; attends a Greek elementary school; displays of antisemitism in the school. German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including separation from his mother and his sister; life with his brothers; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the surgical removal of a kidney, without anesthesia; transfer to a hospital for medical experiments; opening of his abdomen, and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yafa Sheindi (Meier) Glazer, born in Kistarcsa, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Kistarcsa, the Szallas Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yafa Sheindi (Meier) Glazer, born in Kistarcsa, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Kistarcsa, the Szallas Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and other places Life in Kistarcsa including displays of antisemitism; Aryanization of the family's factory, 1943; deportation of her brothers to labor battalions; deportation to the Szallas Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer on foot to Auschwitz; camp life including labor filling fatigue belts with explosives; attempt to keep kosher; exchange of meat for bread; deportation to Stutthof by ship, on Yom Kippur; life in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zahava Olga Fridman, born in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Zahava Olga Fridman, born in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Bergen-Belsen From a family of Satmar and Belz hasidim; attends a Jewish school. German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; her parents' deaths; transfer with her twin sister to the Twin Block under Dr. Mengele; transfer to the Gypsy camp; transfer to Ravensbrueck on foot, January 1945; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation, April 1945. Move to Sweden as part of the Bernadotte...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pirchia Piri (Frizner) Straser, born in Tekovske Sarluhy, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Levice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Lippstadt and Kaunitz

Testimony

Testimony of Pirchia Piri (Frizner) Straser, born in Tekovske Sarluhy, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Levice Ghetto, Auschwitz, Lippstadt and Kaunitz From a traditional family; life before the war. German occupation; deportation to the Levice Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Lippstadt; transfer to Kaunitz; liberation by the US Army. Care given by a US Army officer and by the JDC; aliya training; return home; marriage; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Artza", 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elizabet (Shvartz) Brodi, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Surany Ghetto, Komarno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and Parschnitz

Testimony

Testimony of Elizabet (Shvartz) Brodi, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Surany Ghetto, Komarno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and Parschnitz Life before the war; education. Re-annexation to Hungary, November 1938; restrictions on Jews including drafted to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; rescue from the deportation of the Jews from Slovakia, 1942; deportation of her family to the Surany Ghetto; ghetto life including supervision by Hungarian gendarmes; confiscation of valuables; concentration of the Jews in a synagogue; transfer to Komarno;...

File Number : 12873

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Katarina (Goldbergerová) Pazerini, born in Prešov, regarding her experiences during 1939-1945

- Life of the Goldberger family in Prešov; establishment of "Independent Slovakia" in 03/1939; start of the persecution of the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; confiscation of Jewish property; order given to Katarina Goldbergerová to present herself to the authorities for labor, 21/03/1942; separation from her parents and from her brother Juraj; concentration of young women from Prešov and the surrounding area who are ages 16-25, and their transfer to a concentration place in Poprad; confiscation of valuables by members of the Hlinka Guard; marriage proposal by Miki Pazerini, with the aim of removing Kati...

File Number : 4666

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945 Memoirs of Klára Lavičková, pp. 2–14: Establishment of independent Slovakia in March 1939; anti-Jewish rules and regulations; Klára is fired from her job with a Jewish-owned company due to the company’s “Aryanization”; working as a seamstress in Bielice; anti-Jewish atmosphere in Zabokreky; young Jews mobilized for service in labor camps under Slovakian Army auspices; Klára deported to the Patronka camp on March 27, 1942, and then, several days later, to Auschwitz; shaving of hair;...

File Number : 3680

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Czech

Memoirs of a Hungarian Jewish physician regarding the "Aktion" against 1, 200 Hungarian Jewish children in Auschwitz on Yom Kippur, September 1944

Memoirs of a Hungarian Jewish physician regarding the "Aktion" against 1,200 Hungarian Jewish children in Auschwitz on Yom Kippur, September 1944 Order to lock up 1,200 Jewish children from Hungary in Blocks 21 and 22 in the E-Lager of Auschwitz, September 1944; the children's fear of what was about to happen to them; "Aktion" against the children in the open space in front of the showers, Yom Kippur Eve, 26 September, 1944; order for the Jewish physicians in the camp hospital to report to the open space; performance of the "Aktion" by the SS German physicians; Tylo, Mengele and Fischer; the selection:...

File Number : 2111

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

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